Sang-Keun Yoo is Assistant Professor of English at Marist University, USA. He has published several articles in Science Fiction Film and Television and other notable publications. He is the Korea Representative for the Science Fiction Research Association

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Speculative Orientalism and New Wave Science Fiction1. The Birth of Speculative Orientalism: British New Wave Science Fiction2. First Encounter with Asia: The Impact of War Propaganda on American New Wave Science Fiction3. The Prototype of Speculative Orientalism: William S. Burroughs’s Poststructuralist Chinese4. The Evolution of Speculative Orientalism: From Goods to Religion in Philip K. Dick’s Short Stories 1950–19705. An Afro-Orientalist Version of Speculative Orientalism: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren6. Beyond Speculative Orientalism: The Taoist Temporalities in Ursula K. Le GuinConclusion: Speculative Orientalism NowIndex

Through wide-ranging readings of major New Wave SF writers, Sang-Keun Yoo reveals how imaginations about “Asian civilization” have functioned as a signifier of radical alterity and racialized futurity in what is arguably the most critically significant period of American and British science fiction. Bridging postcolonial theory, Asian American studies, and critical SF studies, this rigorous book reframes the global politics of genre fiction and expands the critical horizons of both ethnic and Asian studies. Speculative Orientalism is essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural politics of science fiction, the racial imaginaries of empire, and the shifting place of traditional religion in speculative world-building

Sang-Keun Yoo is Assistant Professor of English at Marist University, USA. He has published several articles in Science Fiction Film and Television and other notable publications. He is the Korea Representative for the Science Fiction Research Association

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Speculative Orientalism and New Wave Science Fiction1. The Birth of Speculative Orientalism: British New Wave Science Fiction2. First Encounter with Asia: The Impact of War Propaganda on American New Wave Science Fiction3. The Prototype of Speculative Orientalism: William S. Burroughs’s Poststructuralist Chinese4. The Evolution of Speculative Orientalism: From Goods to Religion in Philip K. Dick’s Short Stories 1950–19705. An Afro-Orientalist Version of Speculative Orientalism: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren6. Beyond Speculative Orientalism: The Taoist Temporalities in Ursula K. Le GuinConclusion: Speculative Orientalism NowIndex

Through wide-ranging readings of major New Wave SF writers, Sang-Keun Yoo reveals how imaginations about “Asian civilization” have functioned as a signifier of radical alterity and racialized futurity in what is arguably the most critically significant period of American and British science fiction. Bridging postcolonial theory, Asian American studies, and critical SF studies, this rigorous book reframes the global politics of genre fiction and expands the critical horizons of both ethnic and Asian studies. Speculative Orientalism is essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural politics of science fiction, the racial imaginaries of empire, and the shifting place of traditional religion in speculative world-building

Sang-Keun Yoo is Assistant Professor of English at Marist University, USA. He has published several articles in Science Fiction Film and Television and other notable publications. He is the Korea Representative for the Science Fiction Research Association

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Speculative Orientalism and New Wave Science Fiction1. The Birth of Speculative Orientalism: British New Wave Science Fiction2. First Encounter with Asia: The Impact of War Propaganda on American New Wave Science Fiction3. The Prototype of Speculative Orientalism: William S. Burroughs’s Poststructuralist Chinese4. The Evolution of Speculative Orientalism: From Goods to Religion in Philip K. Dick’s Short Stories 1950–19705. An Afro-Orientalist Version of Speculative Orientalism: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren6. Beyond Speculative Orientalism: The Taoist Temporalities in Ursula K. Le GuinConclusion: Speculative Orientalism NowIndex

Through wide-ranging readings of major New Wave SF writers, Sang-Keun Yoo reveals how imaginations about “Asian civilization” have functioned as a signifier of radical alterity and racialized futurity in what is arguably the most critically significant period of American and British science fiction. Bridging postcolonial theory, Asian American studies, and critical SF studies, this rigorous book reframes the global politics of genre fiction and expands the critical horizons of both ethnic and Asian studies. Speculative Orientalism is essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural politics of science fiction, the racial imaginaries of empire, and the shifting place of traditional religion in speculative world-building